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Inuit and Whalers on Baffin Island Through German Eyes
1883, Baffin Island. Le journal inédit de Wilhelm Weike, jeune artisan allemand embarqué malgré lui dans l’expédition de Franz Boas, révèle le quotidien des Inuit et des baleiniers au cœur de l’Arctique canadien.
Ludger Müller-Wille and Bernd Gieseking have edited and annotated Weike's journal extensively. They present his biography and highlight his observations and his contributions to Boas's scientific work.
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Ludwig Müller-Wille et Bernd Gieseking forment un duo éditorial et scientifique dont les travaux explorent les rencontres entre cultures autochtones et explorateurs européens dans l’Arctique du XIXe siècle. Leur collaboration allie la rigueur académique de Müller-Wille, géographe et anthropologue spécialiste des régions polaires, à la sensibilité narrative et artistique de Gieseking, auteur et dramaturge. Ensemble, ils ont exhumé et annoté le journal de Wilhelm Weike, offrant ainsi un regard inédit sur la vie des Inuit et des baleiniers à travers les yeux d’un jeune Allemand ordinaire. Leur approche, à la fois documentaire et accessible, rend hommage aux récits populaires et aux grands explorateurs.
Bernd Gieseking
Bernd Gieseking est un auteur, dramaturge et comédien allemand originaire de Minden, comme Weike et Boas. Il a adapté pour la scène et la radio les récits polaires, dont celui de Weike, qu’il a mis en valeur à travers des lectures théâtralisées et des pièces radiophoniques. Son approche artistique et littéraire apporte une dimension vivante et humaine aux archives historiques, rendant accessibles les récits d’exploration à un large public.
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Wilhelm Weike was hired to cook, haul, sew, clean, hunt, re-sole shoes and so on, and had the skills as well as the physical and psychological constitution required to support Boas during his year on Baffin Island. These journals of an uneducated helpmate are something of a cultural oddity, and ultimately remain a footnote to the expedition.
He would probably have remained unknown if it had not been for the fact that he was the servant of the young and later well-known scientist, Franz Boas, on his expedition to Baffin Island in 1883-84. As part of his work, Boas made Weike keep a journal in order to supplement his own notes. The journal was published in German in 2008 to celebrate the International Polar Year and is now available to a larger audience in English.
Inuit and Whalers on Baffin Island through German Eyes greatly enriches our picture of the intermingling of indigenous and European cultures in the late nineteenth-century Arctic.
Wilhelm Weike’s journals provide a unique perspective on early European anthropological research on Baffin Island. Employed by Franz Boas, who would later become a noted anthropologist at Columbia University, Weike was asked by his employer to keep a journal of his travels for Boas’s future use.
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